here's what i did in the desert besides read and stare into space. some quick sketches in zee tiny sketchbook.
i'm having fun being a student in ashley goldberg's paint plan play class. i'm one of the art journal spread contributers in the final weeks. yes, you heard me right.
me, the NO person, said YES to something. on occasion i am known to be agreeable. occasionally. sometimes. rarely. almost never.
so i'm dipping into an old art visual/art/whatever journal and playing around.
none of the above.
but i'll show you the planner i'm using in an upcoming episode.
p.s. HOGWASH!
that's the new favorite word in my chinatown classroom. just wanted to share. they're all using it 10 times each per day. for some reason after i explained what it meant everyone thought it was the most hilarious word they'd never heard. you wouldn't think it could be used 280 times per day would you? it can. please help me think up a replacement and quick.
I thought it was “KERFLUFFLE”. Easier to say.
GobbledeeGook! KERFUFFLE?? FUNNY word! But ANY word or phrase repeated over & over will drive a person “smooth up the wall!” Once kids get on to something, they won’t give up. I KNOW.
How about COOLIO?
isn’t hogwash the same as “humbug”? love all these words i discover here!
Kerfuffle!
Tickety-boo. I first heard this on “Call the Midwife” though I suspect I heard it years ago in England. Urban Dictionary description – (clean!)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tickety-boo
btw, my husband uses ‘copacetic’ a lot but then he’s an engineer.
My college quad-mate once wrote a paper for a class and the professor gave her a D and wrote that the paper was “Nebulous blather.”
This word more pretains to a person than to an idea as hogwash does, but when
I used it recently my son-in-law laughed the hardest as he said he had not heard it used in quite some time, RAT FINK. Have fun!
I am so impressed with these suggestions which I have laughed heartily over! I am writing them all down to use in future conversations and journaling. I cannot think of any better suggestions but will leave you with a quote from Doc Martin (our favorite) who responded to an investigator by calling him “an unctuous, platitudinous eunuch”. Words.
I was coming over here to say BALDERDASH as soon as I read your blog entry! Only to see that was the first word mentioned in the first two comments plus several others. Good to expand the vocabulary. Never a need to swear when you have vocabulary!
Aloha, Kate
I think everything has been covered.
BULLPUCKY!
SWELL, SERENDIPITOUS, CRIMINY, KISMET
You ROCK.
Bullshit?
Have you read the BFG by Roald Dahl to them? They’ll start to make up their own!
i’m awfully fond of the word malarkey. and under your hogwash circumstances, it is fitting. good luck with that! 😀
I was going to suggest persnickety but I see Suki beat me to it, so how about codswallop?! 😉
Fiddlesticks!
Gobsmacked! Fiddle Faddle! Fiddle Dee Dee. The Brits seem to have a lively, very fun list of descriptive words to use in place of expletives. I’m so glad you’re at this school for these kids to enjoy. I’m sure your class is filled with joy and love.
Love your desert sketches. The desert is indeed a special place.
When my little darling were small, many moons ago, the word we used was “Idaho.” You could substitute “Idaho” for any and all forbidden words, you could use it for emphasis, doubt, exaltation, dread, ennui and on and on.
And you only got to say it THREE times in one day.
No offense to the great state of Idaho is implied. It’s just such a fun word to say!
XO
Along with balderdash, we say bumbershoot around our house. I love the cute little quail, and the greens and yellows in that last one are just delicious.
Hooey, hokum, bunk, rubbish, twaddle… but I think balderdash and rubbish are the best.
Piffle! That’s a good one, said with emphasis 🙂
Love the sketches. I’m practising, I would love to be able to sketch so loosely but I get analy stuck on every bitty detail *sigh*
I agree with Maggie & Pati, the first to mind was balderdash ,,,
then phooey, fiddle sticks and sugarfoot?
I love you and your paintings and your funniness and your blog! I want to sketch again so bad, I just can’t seeem to put the beads and wire down. But every day I get up and say I will try again, and if I did it once I will do it again….keep channeling me okay?!
My students love PERSNICKETY. I also tell them that their “crazy antics are making my brains feel like scrambled eggs,” when they seem to have gotten stuck on something, like that hogwash song from Frozen. 😉
Horse-wallop!
“Horsefeathers”!!!. That’ll get ’em.
Sorry, I can’t think of a word that wouldn’t be equally anoying said that frequently…You are too much! Thanks for the smiles. Love the artwork.
LOVE that last drawing. Great looking whateveritis.
PoppyCock. I use it all the time
Balderdash!
How about Balderdash?